The Osceola times., 1887-10-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND roLITIcAL

Louis on the 18th, and General Iairchii'
delivered his annual address.
SEVERAL French princes have purchases
estates at Cracow, and intend TO becom'
Russian citizens and enter the Russiai
army.
THE chief officer Of the Statistical Blu
reau of the Minister of Commerce of Aus
tria- Hungary has addressed a commune
cation to Hon. Edmund Jussen, Consul
General at Vienna, in which he requests
TO be informed in detail ia reference to III,
organization, powers and duties, etc, OF
the Bureau OF Statistics Of the United
States.
A. u. WEBB, OF ST. Louis, has been ap-
pointed United States Consul at Manila,
Philippine islands.
SIR JoHS PopE HESNEssEY Is about TO
retire from public life TO his newly-pur.
chased castle in Ireland.
THE President has appointed William =.
Putnam, OF Maine, aud James X. Angel,
of Michigan, on the Fishery Commission.
JAcon SHARPE must go to Sing Sing, the
physician appointed by the court having
decided that his health will not be preju-
diced by his removal
PoLypoRE DE KurER, Bulgarian by
birth, aud a strong Roman Catholic, has
been elected Lord Mayor OF London.
lr ~ estimated on one-fourth returns
from the State that prohibition was de-
feated in Tennessee, at the election on
the Goth, by from 1900 to $1,000 majority.
COLONEL RIDoEwAy has a paper in the
lNiseteeaih Century laudatory of Rgssia's
civdizing innaenees ia Asia, which il Is
thought will operate deirimentally to his
popularity in British Government circles.
SECRETARY FAIRCHLD was at the
Treasury Department on the 10Th, aud had
conference with Acting Secretary
Thompson, and later attended the Cabinet
meeting. Mr.. Fairchild resumed active
charge OF tile Treasury Department on
the 3Dth.
JoHN SwINToN OF New York, has de-
clned the Sociallst,c nomination for Sec.
retary of state, on the ground of i'll health
and necessity of mending his private
affairs, which he SAYS have been ruined
during bis devotion 10 the cause Of labor.
CARDINAL GIBBONS arrived IN 81. Paul
on the 23th. Carriages were taken at the
depot for Bishop lreland's residence,
where an informal reception was held.
Mrs. CoLroN, widow of General ID. ID.
Cotton, in an interview at San Francisco
on the eo.h, denied the statement made a
few days ago by {. T.. Huntington before
the Pacific Railroad Commission in New
York, in regard TO the letter written by
him TO her late husband. She accuses Mr..
Huntington Of falsehood In saying the
letters were stolen from the safe, and that
they were afterwards offered for sale by
her agents
The President and party started on their
Western trip on the Goth.
COLONEL WM. X. MORRISON, of Illinois,
has been allowed twelve dollars a month
pension as Mexican war veteran.
AYouB KHAN, having failed TO ncite in
surrection at Herat, is marching toward
Candahar.
GENERAL CRooK's official report 10 the
War Department on the recent Ute
troubles in Colorado Is strongly condem.
natory ofthe whites.
TnK Michigan delegation, both of G. A.
r. veterans, as well rs the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, are highly elated, as they have
cause to be, over the honor conferred upon
the State in the choice of Mrs. Emma S.
Hampton, OF Detroit, as the National presi.
dent.
SECRETARY LAMAR has decided that
grant attaches to tho Northern Pacific
from near Portland, Ore, 10 near Puget
Sound, a distance of about 140 miles.
This reverses a decision OF Commissioner
Sparks.
THE board appointed by Secretary
Whitney to report upon the pneumatic
gun carriages and other devices has rec
commended that the pneumatic system be
applied TO the monitor Terror, and that
the Government purchase one Of the gun
carriages If necessary.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has submitted to the Secretary of the In
terror its estimates for the next fiscal year.
They are as follows: Salaries of commits
sioners, s3I 900; salary of secretary, ~ 800;
all other necessary expenses, Sl53,J00: to-
tai s2oo,00o. The present appropriation
100000.
THAroR SAHIB, OF Morva, an Indian
prince, who has been looking over the
United States and Canada, arrived In
Cleveland on the 30th. He visited Gar
fields tomb and the rolling mills in the iron
ward and then left for Saratoga. lie
travels In the late ". IL. Nanderbilts pri-
vate car.
PRESIDENT AND Mrs. CLEVELAND and
party arrived in st. Louis at midnight ON
the LIST, and were received in the most Ell.
thusiastic manner by the thousands who
had gathered along Washington avenue,
through which the party drove TO the resi-.
dence OF Mayor Francis. The avenue was
beautifully Illuminated in their honor On
the "a the distinguished couple attended
divine service at the Second rresbyteria
Church.
SECRETARY BALFoug seems determined
to completely muzzle the Irish National.
ist press.
BINSs, the English public executioner,
Is coming money by giving exhibitions Of
public executions ON the stages of theaters
throughout the country. He uses wax
figures, and his show is accompanied by
ull the usual accessories of a genuine hang
ing.
HoS. JAMES q. BLAINE arrived In Lyons,
France, on the 30th. aud left on the LIST for
Paris, where he expected to be joined by
Messrs. Hale, Garrett and other gentle.
men. He will next visit Berlin.
THE President and party were given an
enthusiastic reception during their stay of
few hours at Indianapolis, Ind, ON the
lst. An enthusiastic drummer presented
the chief magistrate with Waterbury
watch.
Hon. THOMAS a. ARMSTRONG, proprietor
Df the NotORdi Labor Tribune. died at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the evening Of the lst,
from the effects OF a wound received in
one OF the battles OF the war.
ALBERT HANG. the oarsman, broke one
OF his arms on the ist while practicing ON
q trieyle.
PRESIDENT SPArDISo OF the Chicago
Base Ball Club has refused the use of the
Chicago grounds for oae of the worlds
championship games between 81. Louis
and Detroit.
Dr.. PArgrH, of Fnsisnd, who is 10 de.